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Emily Tesh

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EMILY TESH is a UK-based author of science fiction and fantasy. Her debut novel, Some Desperate Glory, won the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Tesh is also a winner of the Astounding Award, and the author of the World Fantasy Award-winning Greenhollow duology.

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Hi Emily! Are you coming out with any new books soon? I nearly cried when I finished Silver in the Wood and saw you didn't have any other books out! I love your work so much!

Emily Tesh Thank you very much! I don't think I'm officially allowed to answer this one yet? But if you were hoping to learn more about the characters from Silve…moreThank you very much! I don't think I'm officially allowed to answer this one yet? But if you were hoping to learn more about the characters from Silver in the Wood... you may be in luck. Wait and see.(less)

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this isn't a question, more just a declaration of love for your writing and worldbuilding oh my GOD. you are wonderful and a fresh, welcome (and arguably needed) presence on the historical fantasy scene. but i guess i do have a question: will we be seeing more of your writing soon?

Emily Tesh Hello! I’m so happy you enjoy my writing!

DROWNED COUNTRY, the second book in the Greenhollow Duology, is out on August 18th. (so soon! I can’t believ…moreHello! I’m so happy you enjoy my writing!

DROWNED COUNTRY, the second book in the Greenhollow Duology, is out on August 18th. (so soon! I can’t believe it’s so soon now!) It’s about vampire hunting and Fairyland and lost landscapes and rising sea levels and how much of a melodramatic idiot Henry Silver can be, and Publisher’s Weekly gave it a starred review. If you want to do an author a favour, you can preorder it now! (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...)

After that... well, the next thing I’m working on is still SFF but decidedly not historical fantasy. I’m hoping at least some of my readers will stick with me for the ride :)(less)

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Average rating: 4.0 · 63,757 ratings · 12,090 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 23,748 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some Desperate Glory 4.05 avg rating — 18,871 ratings — published 2023 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 11,041 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Incandescent 3.98 avg rating — 9,052 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Greenhollow Duology: Silver in the Wood & Drowned Country by Emily Tesh (Goodreads Author), Matthew Lloyd Davies (Narrator) 3.94 avg rating — 1,034 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tor.com Publishing 2019 Debut Sampler by Tor Books, Katharine Duckett (Goodreads Author), Jennifer Giesbrecht (Goodreads Author) 3.37 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Listen In: A Conversation with Emily Tesh: An Exclusive Interview by The Audible Editors, Emily Tesh (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Emily Tesh answered Jules's question: Hi! Very excited for The Incandescent. Do you plan for it to be a standalone or part of a series? It's a standalone - I'm not really much of a series writer!
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“Tobias had thought and thought about it, for four hundred years, until he’d reached the conclusion that Fabian must have loved him, after all, in his own way. That was the worst of it. The thing that woke now every year was always glad to see him.”
― Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood

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“At once slow deep green rolled over him. He took a breath, and another, smelling old rotting leaves and healthy growth and autumn light. He felt almost as though he could have planted his feet and become a tree himself, a strong oak reaching up to the sky, brother of the old oak who ruled the wood.”
― Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood

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“What a waste it was, what a terrible waste, to take a person who dreamed cities and gardens and enormous shining skies and teach him that the only answer to an unanswerable suffering was slaughter.”
― Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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